For the 'havelib' tests, it is necessary for the module to know the location
of the macros in the tarball. This provides it, through a shell variable at
configure time. Its use is generally not recommended, but in cases like this
one, I don't see how to avoid it.
2010-04-02 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
gnulib-tool: Provide the value of --m4-base to modules.
* gnulib-tool (func_import, func_create_testdir): Emit a definition
of gl_m4_base.
--- gnulib-tool.orig Fri Apr 2 16:44:34 2010
+++ gnulib-tool Fri Apr 2 14:13:24 2010
@@ -4328,6 +4328,7 @@
else
sed_replace_build_aux="$sed_noop"
fi
+ echo " gl_m4_base='$m4base'"
func_emit_initmacro_start $macro_prefix
echo " gl_source_base='$sourcebase'"
for module in $main_modules; do
@@ -4903,6 +4904,7 @@
s|AC_CONFIG_FILES(\(.*\):build-aux/\(.*\))|AC_CONFIG_FILES(\1:'"$auxdir"'/\2)|
ba
}'
+ echo "gl_m4_base='../$m4base'"
func_emit_initmacro_start $macro_prefix
# We don't have explicit ordering constraints between the various
# autoconf snippets. It's cleanest to put those of the library before
@@ -5032,6 +5034,7 @@
else
sed_replace_build_aux="$sed_noop"
fi
+ echo "gl_m4_base='$m4base'"
func_emit_initmacro_start $macro_prefix
echo "gl_source_base='$sourcebase'"
for module in $modules; do
